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[–] AFKBRBChocolate 130 points 1 year ago (4 children)

For people not reading the article, Twitter was facing a class action lawsuit, but they successfully sued to force employees to go through arbitration, which avoids a class action suit. Only problem is that arbitration rules say the employee has to pay a small fee for filing, but the company has to pay the arbitration costs. Twitter filed to force the costs to be split with the employee, but the organization that overseas arbitration said that's against their rules and has refused to engage in any arbitration activities that Twitter isn't paying for. The pricetag could be millions, and Twitter is simply not paying, so now the employees are suing to force Twitter to pay.

[–] Tentaclius 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How forced an arbitration even legal. I don't get it.

[–] KingKRool 16 points 1 year ago

It is not legal for employees alleging sexual assault or harassment. Because Congress passed a law making that illegal. Also, it is not legal for baggage handlers, because the Supreme Court said there's an exemption for working in interstate commerce. IIRC Congress tried to ban it across the board last year, but it died in the Senate and then the House flipped so there won't be another chance for a few years at least.

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[–] bappity 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

thank you 🙏
I wish there was a TLDR bot on Lemmy

[–] mjhagen 4 points 1 year ago

I’ve seen one around some places, don’t remember where though.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I would rather keep this place bot free

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Makes sense to me